Throughout the early 1920s, jurists tried repeatedly to reform the Family Code of 1918. Prompted by the more radical proponents of free union, as well as the need to redress the social problems of NEP, the Commissariats of Justice and Internal Affairs prepared several drafts of a new Family Code. Their efforts were clearly influenced by Evgeny Pashukanis, a young Marxist jurist, whose ideas on the origins of law dominated Soviet jurisprudence after 1924. Pashukanis's work on the withering away of the law provided a powerful, comprehensive framework for those who sought to hasten the withering away of the family. The process of drafting the new Family Code clearly bore the stamp of his thinking. With each successive draft, the jurists further pared the provisions of the Code and minimized the role of law. The final draft, which was submitted for nationwide debate in 1925, was considerably shorter and sparer than the 1918 original.